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Servants and Conscripts in Hessian Military Service 1775-83
An examination of German Troops in the American Revolution (1) Hessen-Cassel, Osprey, 2021, Donald M. Londahl-Smidt, 47 pages
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When I was being inducted into the Cult of the Lie, through academic history books, filtered from primary sources, I was taught that the Hessian soldiers serving Great Britain in the American revolution were ‘mercenaries.’ …